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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:41:45 -0600
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r256423 - head/sys/dev/xen/blkfront
Message-ID:  <1389894105.2790.71638533.0622D1C5@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <52D800F1.7060706@egr.msu.edu>
References:  <201310130234.r9D2YKs2034280@svn.freebsd.org> <528E8272.1010301@egr.msu.edu> <528E87FA.7010902@egr.msu.edu> <52D800F1.7060706@egr.msu.edu>

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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014, at 9:55, Adam McDougall wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 17:23, Adam McDougall wrote:
> > On 11/21/2013 17:00, Adam McDougall wrote:
> >> On 10/12/2013 22:34, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >>> Author: gibbs
> >>> Date: Sun Oct 13 02:34:20 2013
> >>> New Revision: 256423
> >>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/256423
> >>>
> >>> Log:
> >>>   Allow FreeBSD to be booted from CDROM media on XenServer 6.2 and
> >>>   prior releases.
> >>>=20=20=20
> >>>   Submitted by:	Roger Pau Monn=E9
> >>>   Sponsored by:	Citrix Systems R&D
> >>>   Reviewed by:	gibbs
> >>>   Approved by:	re (gjb)
> >>>=20=20=20
> >>>   sys/dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c:
> >>>   	On XenServer versions up to an including 6.2, paravirtualized
> >>>   	CDROM support is broken.  When running in an HVM domain,
> >>>   	ignore paravirtualized instances of CDROM media, and instead
> >>>   	rely on native drivers attaching to emulated hardware.  This
> >>>   	functions correctly on all currently known Xen based
> >>>   	platforms.
> >>
> >> Can this pretty please be MFC'ed for 10.0?  I haven't heard of any
> >> problems with it, only successes on freebsd-xen@freebsd.org (thread:
> >> "FreeBSD Alpha5 amd64 - Citrix Xen 6.2 problem").  Thanks!
> >=20
> > Oops nevermind!  Mark clued me in to r256757 which is in BETA 3.  Thanks
> > again.
> >=20
>=20
> Is it safe to MFC this for 9 as well?  I checked to verify it doesn't
> seem to be there:
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/sys/dev/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c?r=
evision=3D251973&view=3Dmarkup
> I think Mark has been using a local patch for a while.  Thanks.

Yes I have been using a local patch for a very long time. Have not had a
single issue. It would be appreciated if it was in 9.3-RELEASE, though I
plan to upgrade as many as possible to 10.0-RELEASE for use of the
GENERIC kernel



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